Traveler-clearer for ring-spinning frames



(m T. H. SPEAKMAN.

TRAVELER OLEARER FOR RING SPINNING FRAMES.

No. 398,550. Patented Feb. 26, 1889.

N PETERS Phm-Unm mbner, Wauhinginn. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS H. SPEAKMAN, OF \VARE, ASSIGXOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE DRAIER 8: SONS, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

TRAVEhER -CLEARER FOR RING-SPINNING FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 399,550, dated February 26, 1889.

Application filed January 15, 1889. Serial No. 296,401, No model.)

1'0 (1]? 11-71mm 2" may concern:

lie it; known that LTHOMAs I'I. SPEA'KMAN,

of \Yare, county of Hai'npshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Travelcr-(llearers for RingSpinning Frames, of which the following; description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

In ring-spinning machines prior to my invention the traveler has been cleared by devices attached tethering rail or holder, all of which required some consider-aide trouble in their prod uction and application.

In accordance with my invention the clearer is made as a band and surrounds the neck of the ring just below its race, the said band hein preferably of wire-like material capable of being sprung upon the ring and having an upwardly-extended projection or finger.

My invention consists of a traveler-clearer composed of a spring-band to surround the neck of the ring and having an upwardly-e tended arm.

Figure 1 in side elevation shows a spinning ring and holder and one of my improved traveler-clcarcrs, and Fig. i a section of Fig. l in the, dotted line .1".

The holder (a, the double-tlang'cd ring I) 5 held by it, and the traveler c are all as usual,

and so need not be further described. i

- on its rotation strikes against the finger 3, and

To make my improved clearer d, I take a piece of wire-like metal of a springy nature, and bend it to form a band portion, 2, to be sprung about and embrace the ring snugly, and bend one end of the metal up, as shown in Fig. 1, to form a finger, 3, which stands up just outside the race of the ring, so that the lint extended from and clinging to the traveler 40 is by the finger removed from the traveler.

I should consider as within the term wirelike material a clearer cut out from sheet metal and bent into the form shown.

I claim 1. The hereindescribed traveler clearer consisting of wire-like material shaped to form a band to embrace the neck of the ring, and having a projection or finger, 3, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the ring, of a clearer consisting oi a spring-band having a finger, 3, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'IH'OMAS ll. SPEAKMAN.

Witnesses:

SYLVANUS l-I. Bownx, ROMEO A. SYNYER. 

